This Is The Most Expensive Bentley To Ever Sell At Auction

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A Single-Seat 4.5 Liter Supercharged "Blower" Race Car became the most expensive Bentley to ever cross the auction block when it sold yesterday for an astounding £4.5 million ($7.05 million).

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Flying Cars

Murilee Martin 7/17/10 3:00pm 7/17/10 3:00pm g 10,928 L 82

Flying Jeeps! What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Flying Cars

Murilee Martin 7/17/10 3:00pm 7/17/10 3:00pm g 10,928 L 82

While reading the story of the man responsible for the Blower Bentley, I stumbled across a passage recounting the use of one of the surviving cars for towing test-bed "flying Jeeps" aloft during World War II. Flying Jeeps?

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Vintage Racing

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Blower Bentley Replica: Twice As Many Cylinders, Way More Fun

Vintage Racing

Murilee Martin 6/10/08 3:00pm 6/10/08 3:00pm g 4,941 L 11

We promised you more of VintageRacer's photographs, so here's the next batch. Only 55 Blower Bentleys were built in 1929 and 1930, and they got 175 horsepower out of their blown four-bangers (which had what we think is the best supercharger location ever). This Bob Peterson Engineering-built replica has a…

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